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Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Girl in Nightgown at the Window, nd, Norwegian. Drypoint with roulette on heavy wove paper. Plate: 21.8 x 12.7 cm; sheet: 44.5 x 34 cm. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (http://www.artic.edu); the Clarence Buckingham Collection; photograph © 2001, The Art Institute of Chicago; © 2001 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY.

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was 28 when he arrived in Berlin; it was autumn. Except for summers in Paris, he stayed for three years. Those years would become some of the most important of his career. But his "dark angels," disease and death, continued to dog him. Already he had lost his mother, when he was barely 5, and his sister Sophie, his "alter ego," as he entered his teens; his father had died, suddenly, while Edvard was in Paris studying art, and his brother . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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